diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 19660b742..00729366f 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Bugs fixed
 * Fix duplicated toc in epub3 output.
 * #2775: Fix failing linkcheck with servers not supporting identidy encoding
 * #2833: Fix formatting instance annotations in ext.autodoc.
-* #1911: ``-D`` option of `sphinx-build` does not override the ``extensions`` variable
+* #1911: ``-D`` option of ``sphinx-build`` does not override the ``extensions`` variable
 
 Release 1.4.5 (released Jul 13, 2016)
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